About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

Enterprise Security Requires Effective Key Management

Leading enterprises have amassed valuable and regulated data that flows within and beyond their networks, all of which must be protected. As a result, thousands of encryption keys and certificates have been deployed across their global infrastructures and in the cloud to secure the data and authenticate systems. Organizations that fail to properly manage these assets subject themselves to security vulnerabilities, non-compliance and unplanned outages, all with increasing frequency and cost.

IT security professionals need solutions that allow them to automate and reduce the risks of human errors, while securely managing their encryption deployments with improved access controls. With over eight years experience delivering best-of-breed solutions, Venafi helps global organizations apply best practices to scale and manage encryption for improved security, compliance and risk reduction.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

North America CACS is a multidimensional event featuring audit, security, governance and risk content, audit programs, tools and the resources you need to be responsive to industry changes.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

AGC’s 8th Annual West Coast Information Security & Emerging Growth Conference will take place on Monday, February 27th and Tuesday, February 28th in San Francisco. The agenda will focus on the most innovative emerging growth companies in Information Security, Cloud Computing, Comms, Data Center, Digital Media/Internet, FinTech, HCIT, Mobile, Services and Software. There will be a cocktail reception at the conclusion of the program on each day.

The programs will include panel discussions on the most relevant topics of the day and company presentations delivered by senior-level executives of 275+ leading public and private emerging growth companies, the latter of which will have median revenues of $25mm. AGC’s conferences are unique in their focus on private companies, bringing these executives together with the top decision makers from the largest technology buyers as well as many of the best PE, VC and debt investors. The format will allow each of the attendees the opportunity to meet one another in an up-close and personal setting, exchange ideas and learn the latest trends affecting the emerging growth technology universe. They are “can’t miss” events. The program will also feature:

• 275+ private companies in the most exciting sectors of technology
• 150+ leading tech PE/VC funds
• 700+ 1×1 meetings between top tech strategic buyers, private companies, and the top technology PE/VC funds
• 1,000+ attendees

Investors will have the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one meetings with both public and private companies on each day. Given the feedback from former conference participants, we expect our February event will provide a fertile venue for marketing and networking.

About Venafi

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions. Venafi delivered the first enterprise–class solution to automate the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys—from the datacenter to the cloud and beyond—built specifically for encryption management interoperability across heterogeneous environments. Venafi products reduce the unquantified and unmanaged risks associated with encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and unplanned system outages. Venafi also publishes best practices for effective key and certificate management at www.venafi.com/best-practices. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. Venafi is backed by top–tier venture capital funds, including Foundation Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Origin Partners. For more information, visit www.venafi.com.

Job Description:

Venafi is looking for a dynamic, Director of Product Marketing to lead our development, implementation and execution of marketing plans for the Venafi Encryption Director product lines, including creating and managing content for use in presentations, demand-generation campaigns, web marketing and new sales collateral and enablement tools. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional, highly motivated team of product management, engineering, corporate, field and channel marketing, alliances and sales team members. This role combines strategy and tactics with responsibility for the overall success of all Venafi product lines to drive sales enablement and readiness as well as relevant marketing communications, go-to-market plans, market analyses and competitive intelligence.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Ten years’ experience in product or solutions marketing.
• Proven experience in the high-tech industry.
• Experience working with and a thorough understanding of enterprise software.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills to manage complexities of multiple ongoing workstreams and to balance the many analytical and execution demands of the role.
• Experience working with channel partners.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading teams strategically and creatively.
• Proven track record of developing effective metrics for measuring program performance.
• Capable of performing core product marketing functions without requiring outside contractors.
• Strong background working with industry analysts, trade media, and public relations professionals
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Proven technical aptitude to understand and translate core technical product functionality, feature sets and industry-specific nuances into business benefits for target audience and verticals.
• Ability to adapt to changing business and market requirements and prioritize concurrent, and even opposing, business needs and opportunities.
• Proven experience developing PRDs (product requirement document) and MRDs (marketing requirement documents).
• Strong organizational skills; ability and willingness to do whatever is required to meet deadlines.
• The ability to work independently in changing environments, and the ability/willingness to learn.

Preferred Requirements:

• Product management experience in high-tech industry.
• MBA.

Description of Responsibilities:

Ensure Venafi and customer success through:

• Contribute to the top-level messaging and positioning for Enterprise Key and Certificate Management. (EKCM) products and solutions, including Director Certificate Manager, Director SSH Key Manager, Director Symmetric Key Manager and future offerings.
• Create and execute go-to-market strategies for products and solutions sold directly and as joint offerings with technology alliance partners.
• Collaborate with channel marketing organizations to create and execute campaigns.
• Create content for sales collateral, Venafi web properties and industry events.
• Create and execute written plans for the global launch of products.
• Define go-to-market strategies for new products.
• Research and maintain competitive intelligence and deep understanding of market and industry dynamics.
• Act as a Venafi spokesperson and present content at industry conferences, to press and analysts.

Company Overview:

Venafi is the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM), and automates the provisioning, discovery, monitoring and management of digital certificates and encryption keys across heterogeneous environments. Venafi reduces the unquantified and unmanaged risks of encryption deployments that result in data breaches, security audit failures and system outages. Venafi customers include the world’s most prestigious Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance, high tech, telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare and retail. For more information, go to www.venafi.com.

Venafi offers a fantastic culture that encourages excellence, seeks out and rewards individual contributions, and provides opportunities for personal and professional development. In addition, Venafi offers its employees a superior benefits package and a great work-life balance.

To apply for this position, click on the Apply Now button below or send an email with a resume attached to careers@venafi.com. Include the job code and job title in the email subject line and attach your resume.